Greek Riots

[klein]

The Title of the cartoon is ; " Obama USA Like Greece Color "

So, the cartoonist is comparing Obama (USA), is the same as Greece.

 

[tonyexpress]

I hear people longing for the good old days all the time. Well, you're going to get them soon. Be prepared to be whisked back to 1792 before 24 stockbrokers and merchants signed the Buttonwood Agreement. Since crude oil is evil and, so, too, the stock market, we can be propelled back to the really good old days.
All kidding aside loading up the government with mounds of debt and a runaway deficit is an awful recipe for disaster. I'm for smart regulations. I'm for trying to get healthcare to more Americans. I'm for clean air. But we get it all the same way we became the greatest nation on the planet. We don't get there by becoming Greece. We don't get there by demonizing businesses and raising taxes. There is a skittish undertow to the market that is afraid of policies that doom our potential and thwart our greatness.

Yesterday I did a radio hit with Bill Carroll on KFI-AM when I heard him tell an interesting story about Greece. Greek tax collectors canvassed wealthy neighborhoods in and around Athens asking residences if they had a swimming pool in an effort to enforce the swimming pool tax. 324 residents admitted to having swimming pools. Recently that same tax agency decided to investigate more and had helicopters plot the skies and count the number of pools. As it turns out there are 16,974 swimming pools in those neighborhoods! Gulp...is that massive corruption or massive resentment toward a government that takes from wage earners to support a mammoth government that provides 1/3 of the nation's jobs? The motivation to cheat and lie is enhanced by anger and frustration. That could happen anywhere.

The rioters were not those people actually paying taxes but people living off those (dwindling) tax receipts.

Charles Payne

 

[klein]

I encourage all of you to watch the show " Your $$$$$". It's on every weekend on CNN. Watching it right now actually, but they will repeat it tomorrow, again.
They have Greece as topic, compared to the US, and the stockmarket fall on Thursday/friday... plus the concequences of the Horizon Drill rig. And employment.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Yesterday I did a radio hit with Bill Carroll on KFI-AM when I heard him tell an interesting story about Greece. Greek tax collectors canvassed wealthy neighborhoods in and around Athens asking residences if they had a swimming pool in an effort to enforce the swimming pool tax. 324 residents admitted to having swimming pools. Recently that same tax agency decided to investigate more and had helicopters plot the skies and count the number of pools. As it turns out there are 16,974 swimming pools in those neighborhoods! Gulp...is that massive corruption or massive resentment toward a government that takes from wage earners to support a mammoth government that provides 1/3 of the nation's jobs? The motivation to cheat and lie is enhanced by anger and frustration. That could happen anywhere.

Tony, I deliver to the building inspector's office in my city and, yes, the same thing happens here. People making improvements to their homes without permits in order to keep their assessments and property tax bill from increasing. They have this computer program, similar to Google Earth, that allows them to get down to street level and they have used this program to find and cite for this non-permitted work by comparing what is listed on the assessment for a home to what they see on their computer screens.

 

[bbsam]

Yesterday I did a radio hit with Bill Carroll on KFI-AM when I heard him tell an interesting story about Greece. Greek tax collectors canvassed wealthy neighborhoods in and around Athens asking residences if they had a swimming pool in an effort to enforce the swimming pool tax. 324 residents admitted to having swimming pools. Recently that same tax agency decided to investigate more and had helicopters plot the skies and count the number of pools. As it turns out there are 16,974 swimming pools in those neighborhoods! Gulp...is that massive corruption or massive resentment toward a government that takes from wage earners to support a mammoth government that provides 1/3 of the nation's jobs? The motivation to cheat and lie is enhanced by anger and frustration. That could happen anywhere.

Tony, I deliver to the building inspector's office in my city and, yes, the same thing happens here. People making improvements to their homes without permits in order to keep their assessments and property tax bill from increasing. They have this computer program, similar to Google Earth, that allows them to get down to street level and they have used this program to find and cite for this non-permitted work by comparing what is listed on the assessment for a home to what they see on their computer screens.

Is this a good thing since A) it brings in legitimate tax revenue and B) they don't have to hire new employees to do the assessment on the streets? More efficient government. Say what you want about doing work without the permits, but it does come down to tax fraud, doesn't it?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Yup, it is tax fraud, pure and simple, but their methods seem awfully 1984, don't they?

 

[wkmac]

Fed Intervenes in European Debt Crisis

 

[klein]

Fed Intervenes in European Debt Crisis

I read that earlier on yahoo.
I just don't get it. I mean how it really works.
So, you print more dollars, and exchange them for Euros, then exchange them back.

But, basically, just print more money.

I guess it will make the Euro stronger. If they printed thier own Euros, it would make it weaker.

Just shows how fake currency is actual these days ????
After the re-exchange is done. The US ends up with more printed money. I guess so does Canada and Switzerland.
NO big deal, I guess we can use it !

 

[wkmac]

Monetizing our debt

 

[klein]

How to keep your money safe.....

Strongest currency on the planet on MSN Video

Boring banks helped Canada on MSN Video

 

[Dynomite]

The Title of the cartoon is ; " Obama USA Like Greece Color "

So, the cartoonist is comparing Obama (USA), is the same as Greece.

Greece is extreme socialism as Obama's America isn't anymore socialism then Bushes..... So I still don't get the cartoon.